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Lost traditions and new pathways: Hunting participation and perceptions among Black HBCU students in the U.S.

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Abstract The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Relevancy Roadmap urges wildlife agencies to engage nontraditional audiences in activities such as hunting, yet little research has examined young Black Americans’ perceptions of and participation in hunting.
Richard von Furstenberg, Lincoln R. Larson, Breanna Bashford, Coral Minchey, M. Elizabeth Rutledge, M. Nils Peterson, KangJae Jerry Lee, Stacy A. C. Nelson, William E. Stone, Annette Williams‐Yussif, Catherine Dorwart, Tony Patterson   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public health framing of firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA: a quantitative content analysis

BMC Public Health
Background Firearm violence is an intensifying public health problem in the United States. News reports shape the way the public and policy makers understand and respond to health threats, including firearm violence.
Jessica H. Beard, Shannon Trombley, Tia Walker, Leah Roberts, Laura Partain, Jim MacMillan, Jennifer Midberry   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human hunters are no substitute for vanishing apex predators

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Our study reveals that human hunters fail to replicate the collective and individual ecological functions of natural apex predators in sustaining biodiversity and promoting stable spatial patterns. These insights are vital for rethinking predator conservation and wildlife management in human‐dominated landscapes.
Ying Geng, Christos Mammides, Ru‐Chuan He, Lin Wang, Kang Luo, Zhong‐Yuan Zhang, Bo Wang, Rui‐Chang Quan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
wiley   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

Financial toxicity and firearm injury: exploring financial needs of participants in a hospital-based violence intervention program

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
Background Financial toxicity refers to financial hardship experienced because of illness or injury. Poverty is a known driver of community violence, but financial toxicity has not been studied in firearm violence survivors.
Ana M Reyes, Carlene McKenzie, Meghan Scott, Christopher R Haggerty, Julie Y Valenzuela   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Firearms as a Market‐Driven Epidemic: Potential Pathways to Reduce Preventable Firearm‐Related Harm in the United States

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points For half a century, firearm‐related deaths and injuries have been endemic in the United States, with COVID‐19 contributing to a record high of 48,830 deaths in 2021, an epidemic rate increase. By 2023, national trends masked a significant 10‐fold difference in firearm‐related death rates among states.
ESZTER RIMÁNYI, JONATHAN D. QUICK, STEPHEN W. HARGARTEN, CHARLES C. BRANAS, SANDRO GALEA, NASON MAANI, JONATHAN LOWY, ZAIN HUSSAIN, NICHOLAS HOFFMANN   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source